Captain Joseph Wilder was the secondary antagonist in Series 3 of Primeval. He was Christine Johnson's lead soldier with the Home Office military liaison to the Anomaly Research Centre (ARC).
He was portrayed by Alex McSweeney.
Biography[]
Wilder was a trainer at Sandhurst; one of his students was Hilary Becker, the head of security at the ARC. At some point he was hired by Christine Johnson.
At Christine's headquarters, when a captive Future Predator was being experimented on, awoke and broke free, Wilder warned Johnson that their Cloaking Device would have to be suspended to electrocute the Predator. Johnson ignored the warning and had the Predator electrocuted anyway. He was later reunited with Becker when the Anomaly Research Centre team (Jenny, Connor, Abby and Becker) arrived at his Headquarters looking for Johnson's anomaly. Christine enquired about Becker and Wilder's past relationship and suggested Wilder, to James Lester, as a replacement for the ARC's recently deceased team leader, Nick Cutter.
Wilder travelled to the ARC with Johnson and a spy. He sent the spy to search the ARC for the Artifact but later witnessed him turn into a fungus creature. He told Christine that he had placed two of his men inside the ARC on the maintenance team to also search for the Artifact. Later, Lester made Danny Quinn the new team leader, instead of him (partly to spite Christine).
He was later seen travelling through the future thanks to Christine's Anomaly, where he captured a young woman named Eve and returned with her to his Headquarters in the present. He gave Christine, Eve's diary and Anomaly Opening Device, which he also managed to recover from the future.
At the Headquarters, Christine ordered Wilder to guard Eve. Whilst doing this, he noticed Danny Quinn hiding behind an air vent. When he went to look he was knocked down by Danny. After, he told Christine of this, he travelled with her to the ARC to arrest Danny and recover Eve, when the latter revealed herself to be a disguised Helen Cutter before taking Johnson hostage. Wilder pointed his gun at Helen, but did not fire. It is unknown what Captain Wilder did after Helen left with Christine as he did not appear to try rescue Johnson like the ARC team did. Tho it possible that he was one of the people killed by some Megopterans at Johnson's headquarters.
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Primeval Primeval: New World
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